9Provision for trial for murder or manslaughter in Victoria where death or cause of death only happens in Victoria

9 Provision for trial for murder or manslaughter in Victoria where death or cause of death only happens in Victoria

Where any person being criminally stricken poisoned or otherwise hurt upon the sea or at
any place out of Victoria dies of such stroke poisoning or hurt in Victoria, or being criminally stricken poisoned or otherwise hurt at any place
in Victoria dies of such stroke poisoning or hurt upon the sea or at any place out of Victoria, every offence committed in respect of any such case, whether the same amounts to the offence of murder or of manslaughter or of child homicide or of homicide by firearm or of being accessory to murder or manslaughter or child homicide or homicide by firearm, may be dealt with inquired of tried determined and punished in Victoria in the same manner in all respects as if such offence had been wholly committed in Victoria.

S. 9AA inserted by No. 65/1991 s. 3.

9AA Abolition of year-and-a-day rule

(1) The rule of law known as the year-and-a-day rule (under which an act or omission that in fact causes death is not regarded as the cause of death if the death occurs more than a year and a day after the act or omission) is abolished.

(2) This section does not apply to acts or omissions alleged to have occurred—

(a) before the commencement of the Crimes (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1991; or

(b) between two dates, one before and one after that commencement.

Pt 1 Div. 1 Subdiv. (1AA) (Heading and ss 9AB–9AJ) inserted by No. 77/2005 s. 6, repealed by No. 63/2014 s. 3(3).

Pt 1 Div. 1 Subdiv. (1A) (Heading) inserted by No. 9407 s. 2(a).

(1351–2) 25 Edward III St V., c. II
(1695–6) 7 and 8 William III
c. III (1708) 7 Anne c. 21 s. 14. (1795)